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2010-03-15 -Obits-
Actor Peter Graves, 83
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Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

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Don't call him SHIRLEY!
RIP Peter
Posted by BigEd 2010-03-15 00:12||   2010-03-15 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 The Secretary no longer needs to disavow any knowledge of your actions. Rest well, Peter..
Posted by M. Murcek 2010-03-15 00:16||   2010-03-15 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Joey...do you like movies about gladiators?

Saw it the other night. Still laugh my ass off.
Thanks for the laughs, Peter.
Posted by tu3031 2010-03-15 00:47||   2010-03-15 00:47|| Front Page Top

#4 And, as all MSTies remember,

"He learned, almost too late, that man is a feeling creature and, because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned, too late for himself, that men have to make their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And, when men seek such perfection, they find there's only death, fire, loss, disillusionment, the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to toil and misery. It can't be given; it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from man himself.”
Dr. Paul Nelson, It Conquered the World
Posted by Eric Jablow  2010-03-15 00:56||   2010-03-15 00:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Good actor. Better than some of the ones out now.

This is, of course, rather grave news...

(Sorry, just couldn't resist. Hoping the best for his family.)
Posted by CrazyFool 2010-03-15 01:07||   2010-03-15 01:07|| Front Page Top

#6 THEM! THEM! ... ... An ANT, THATS IMPOSSIBLE!
Posted by JossephMendiola  2010-03-15 01:29|| na  2010-03-15 01:29|| Front Page Top

#7 RIP Peter. For a Minnesotan he died to soon.
Posted by Icerigger 2010-03-15 06:40|| http://coonlakebeach.com  2010-03-15 06:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Joe, Peter Graves wasn't in THEM! His giant bug movie was THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
Posted by Don Vito Anginegum8261 2010-03-15 08:22||   2010-03-15 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 'The Beginning of the End'

One of the very best (worst) of the cheesy '50s sci-fi flicks, and justly hammered on MST3K.

My favorite scene: the grasshoppers are attacking Chicago and decide to climb the Wrigley Building where Peter and his fellow scientists (including the chaste babe) are. Now production values for this flick are modest. Really modest.

How modest are they?

So-o-o-o-o modest that they film the attack scene by placing a grasshopper on what looks like a postcard of the Wrigley building and swinging the camera so that it looks like the grasshopper is climbing the building.

Later after Peter works his magic to drive the grasshoppers off (he IS Peter Graves after all) they just turn the grasshopper around, swing the camera to the other side and now the grasshopper is going down the Wrigley Building.
Posted by Steve White 2010-03-15 09:46||   2010-03-15 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 They know it was Peter Graves, and not someone in a latex mask?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-15 10:04||   2010-03-15 10:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Peter Graves is Peter Arness. Younger brother of James Arness of Gunsmoke fame.
Posted by JohnQC 2010-03-15 10:14||   2010-03-15 10:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Remember Stalag 17:

"He's a Nazi, Price is. For all I know his name is Preissinger or Preishoffer. Oh, sure, he lived in Cleveland. But when the war broke out, he came back to the Fatherland like a good little Bundist. He spoke our lingo, so they sent him to spy school and fixed him up with phony dog tags."
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-03-15 11:34||   2010-03-15 11:34|| Front Page Top

#13 According to my Mom, Stalag 17 ruined his career for a while.
Posted by Spot  2010-03-15 11:53||   2010-03-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Spot: I'd believe it. Villains had to be awful careful back then. Everybody thought Martin Landau was brilliant in North By Northwest, before pausing and saying, "He's not like that in real life, is he? He was just acting, right?"

And when Bruce Dern killed John Wayne in The Cowboys, he practically had to go into hiding.

Even today, the guy who played the angel of death on the TV show Touched By An Angel, had to fly incognito, because other passengers refused to be on the same plane. Once or twice, even a flight crew refused.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-03-15 19:00||   2010-03-15 19:00|| Front Page Top

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